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Contributing FacultyCharles DobbsDepartment of History James T.
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Kevin AmidonDepartment of World Languages and Cultures Assistant Professor of German Studies in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (Ph.D., Princeton, 2001). Kevin Amidon's current large-scale project, entitled The Diagnosis of Difference: Practice and Persuasion in German Biology, 1890-1945, explores the relationships between investigational and persuasive practice in the proliferating German life sciences around and after 1900. He also continues to work on musical and opera culture in German-speaking Europe, and has published on Ernst Krenek, Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, and Franz Kafka. During 2003-2004 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. Emily GodbeyDepartment of Art and Design Assistant Professor of Art and Design (PhD University of Chicago
2005; MFA Rhode Island School of Design, 1993). Emily Godbey specializes
in the history of photography and early film and is interested in
the ways that creativity and technology intersect in image-making.
She teaches courses on material culture, gender and art, and popular
visual culture. Her publications include a meditation on the mapping
of the Aztec capital in "Seeing the New World as the Old: The
1524 Map of Tenochtitlán" in 'Itinerario,' an analysis of the
use of photography as a technological tool for healing in "Picture
Me Sane: Photography and the Magic Lantern in a Nineteenth-Century
Asylum" in 'American Studies,' and a consideration on early microscopic
films and germ theory in "The Cinema of (Un)attractions: The
Microscopic On Screen" in 'Allegories of Communication: Intermedial
Concerns from Cinema to the Digital (Stockholm Studies in Cinema)'.
Due out at the end of this summer is a new article on the 1889 Johnstown
flood and its photographic representations: "Disaster Tourism,
Thanatourism, and the Melodrama of Authenticity: Revisiting the 1889
Johnstown Flood" in 'Pennsylvania History_, Thomas Leslie, IAIADepartment of Architecture Gordon HullDepartment of Philosophy & Religious Studies Asst. Professor, Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies (Ph.D. Vanderbilt, 2000). Gordon Hull works in philosophy of technology and in political philosophy, with a general emphasis on 'continental' thought. He is currently completing a book manuscript on Thomas Hobbes that studies Hobbes's contributions to a distinctly 'modern' (in the seventeenth-century sense) view of political philosophy. He has written several papers on contemporary issues in law and technology, with a particular emphasis on intellectual property and the ways that digitality forces alterations in our underlying legal and political theory. He has a paper due out this fall that critiques the Supreme Court's 2003 decision upholding a requirement for library filtering programs, and is working on a piece that |
Michael J. GolecDepartment of Art and Design enhancement of the home. His "Visual Style and Forms of Science in the Cold War" is forthcoming in Visible Culture: Design Artifacts and Participated Meaning and "Vision and Blindness in Ray and Charles Eames' Powers of Ten" in Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences. Carl HerndlDepartment of English Carl Herndl teaches rhetoric, critical, and literary theory in the Department of English. He writes about the way language maintains and alters social relations and cultural formations, and especially about possibilities or cases of rhetoric as a means for cultural and institutional resistance and change. He has recently written about the rhetorical forms of liberation theology and the movement for social change in Latin America. He also writes about the role of rhetoric in the constitution of scientific knowledge and in the relations between science and political and social practice. In 1996, he co-edited Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America, a volume which analyzed environmental discourse and the way discourse both facilitates and complicates environmental action. Most recently, he has been working in agricultural ecology studying the way science, policy, and social practices together determine the conditions and possibilities for rhetorical action. He has been a faculty affiliate in the Statistical Sciences Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory since 2003, and he is currently a member of two ongoing research projects in agricultural ecology at ISU. He teaches a graduate seminar in the "Rhetorical Study of Science" in the Rhetoric and Professional Communication program in the Department of English. Kimberly Elman ZarecorDepartment of Architecture Assistant Professor of Architecture (M.Arch, Columbia, 1999; Ph.D., Columbia, 2008) Professor Zarecor researches the cultural and technological history of architecture in 20th-century Czechoslovakia. Her dissertation, “Modernist Dreams: Architecture, Politics and the Housing Question in Czechoslovakia, 1945-56,” follows the development and deployment of standardized mass-housing types such as the prefabricated structural panel building and examines the relationship between Communism and architecture in the Eastern Bloc. At Iowa State, she teaches undergraduate design studios and architectural history including classes on 19th- and 20th-century modernism, the history of the American city, and architecture in Czechoslovakia. Her publications include “Jiri Kroha Reconsidered” in Umeni (2004) and “Stavoprojekt and the Atelier of National Artist Jiri Kroha in the 1950s” in Jiri Kroha (1893–1974)- Architect, Painter, Designer, Theorist: A 20th-century Metamorphosis (Brno: Brno City Museum, 2007). Upcoming book chapters include "Designing for the Socialist Family: The Evolution of Housing Types in Early Socialist Czechoslovakia" in Gender and Everyday Life under State Socialism in East and Central Europe: New Scholarship from the United States and Europe since 1989 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan) and “Czechoslovakia's Model Housing Developments: Modern Architecture for the Socialist Future" in Sanctioning Modernism: Architecture and the Making of Postwar Identities (Austin: University of Texas Press). She is also working on a book manuscript based on her dissertation. To support this research, she has received numerous fellowships and research grants including a Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (2002-2003), an ACLS Dissertation Write-Up Fellowship (2003-2004) and a research grant from the Iowa State Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities (2006). |